What is Made Smarter?
Made Smarter is a programme that helps manufacturers adopt digital tools: sensors, software, a first step into automation. It is not one national pot with one form. In this catalogue the live local versions include the East Midlands and the North West, each with its own map. A manufacturer outside those areas should not assume the same grant exists.
Also asked as: Made Smarter grant · manufacturing digital grant · Made Smarter East Midlands
Is a like-for-like machine eligible?
The East Midlands listing wants technology that is new to the firm, not a straight replacement, and a supplier quote. Read the local page.
Schemes named here
- Made Smarter East MidlandsMade Smarter · £2,000–£20,000 · A business · 5–249 · Manufacturing · Closes 11 Dec 2026
- Made Smarter North WestMade Smarter · £2,000–£20,000 · A business · 5–249 · Manufacturing · Closes 11 Dec 2026
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128 answers on this site. Find Grants checks which UK grants a business can get from a postcode or a place. Looking is free. If you want the application written, the fee is £99 for that one application, shown before you pay. Find Grants does not take a percentage of the grant, does not file the form, and is not part of GOV.UK. Confirm every scheme on the funder's own site.